Effective Monday, Sept. 23, Everport Terminal Services Tacoma is launching an appointment system utilizing eModal as the platform.
For your reference, the following summarizes key points of interest along with a reference table showing the requirements for various transactions:
- Appointment slots will open 7 days in advance (subject to change).
- Appointments for the next day will close daily at 12 p.m. PST. Same day appointments will only be possible if an appointment was canceled the day of.
- Appointments will be for one-hour slots with 30-minute grace periods on each end of the hour. Each appointment therefore is valid for two hours when including grace periods.
- Reefer empty-out, reefer export-in, free-flow import-out, and wheeled import-out transactions will require an appointment for an estimated arrival time, however the appointment will be good for the entire day.
The chart below shows which transactions require appointments:
